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9780812218213

Theory in Landscape Architecture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780812218213

  • ISBN10:

    0812218213

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-25
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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Summary

Here, for students and practitioners of landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, is a single resource for seminal theoretical texts in the field. Essential for understanding the specific connections that have been made between landscape and social, cultural, and political structures,Theory in Landscape Architecturereminds readers that the discipline of landscape architecture can be both practical and formally challenging. Covering the past fifty years of theory, this primer makes an important contribution to a student's emerging professional ethics.

Author Biography

Simon Swaffield is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Selections included in the volume: "How to Study Landscape"
"Design Process"
"Site Planning"
"Inventive Analysis"
"Form, Meaning, and Expression"
"Minimalist Landscape"
"Must Landscapes Mean?"
"Reading and Writing the Site"
"The Expanded Field of Landscape Architecture"
"Design with Nature"
"The Granite Garden"
"Principles for Regional Design"
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